1862 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1862 in the United Kingdom.

1 Incumbents
2 Events
- 2.1 Undated
3 Publications
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 References
7 See also

Incumbents

Monarch — Queen Victoria
Prime Minister — Viscount Palmerston, Liberal

Events

6 January — French and British forces arrive in Mexico, beginning the French intervention in Mexico.
16 January — Hartley Colliery Disaster: 204 miners die following collapse of machinery at the Hartley Colliery in Northumberland.^[1]
15 March — Riots in Stalybridge, Lancashire, over cotton recession.^[2]
21 March — James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin appointed Governor-General of India.^[3]
1 May — International Exhibition of Industry and Science opens in South Kensington.^[2]
16 May — Habeas Corpus Act restricts the right of English courts to issue writs of habeas corpus in British colonies or dominions.^[4]
24 May — New Westminster Bridge, designed by Thomas Page, is opened.^[5]
1 July — Marriage of Princess Alice, second daughter of Queen Victoria, to Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine.
4 July — Charles Dodgson ('Lewis Carroll') takes Alice Liddell and her sisters on a rowing trip on The Isis from Folly Bridge, Oxford, to Godstow on which he tells the story that becomes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.^[6]
29 July — Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama is launched clandestinely at Birkenhead by John Laird Sons and Company.^[7]
31 August — Last mail coach runs from Carlisle to Hawick, Scotland.^[8]
14 September — A British national, Charles Lenox Richardson, is killed in Japan by samurai in the Namamugi Incident. Three companions escaped, though two were seriously injured.
11 October — Jessie M'Lachlan executed having been found guilty in the Sandyford murder case in Scotland.
20 October — Charles Thomas Longley succeeds as Archbishop of Canterbury, being translated from York.^[9]
November — Criminal law amended to make robbery with violence punishable by flogging.^[2]

Undated

'Revised Code' introduces a system of 'payment by results' for elementary schools in England and Wales.^[10]
Clifton College established.
Joseph Bazalgette begins construction of the Thames Embankment in London.^[2]

Publications

M. E. Braddon's 'sensation novel' Lady Audley's Secret.
Serialisation of George Eliot's novel Romola.
Herbert Spencer's book First Principles, the first volume of his System of Synthetic Philosophy.

Births

29 January — Frederick Delius, composer (d. 1934)
2 July — William Henry Bragg, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
5 August — Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man" (d. 1890)
26 August — Herbert Booth, the third son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926)
3 October — Johnny Briggs, cricketer (d. 1902)

Deaths

3 April — James Clark Ross, naval officer and explorer (b. 1800)
29 June — James Bowman Lindsay, inventor (b. 1799)
6 September — John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1780)
8 October — James Walker, civil engineer (b. 1781)
18 December — Lucas Barrett, naturalist and geologist (b. 1837)

References

^ Durham Mining Museum - Colliery Disaster 1862
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 283–284. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
^ Osborn, P. G. (2008). A Concise Law Dictionary, for Students and Practitioners. Read Books. p. 124. ISBN 1-4437-2948-5.
^ "Where Thames Smooth Waters Glide". http://thames.me.uk/s00130.htm. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
^ Davies, Mark J. (2010). Alice in Waterland: Lewis Carroll and the River Thames in Oxford. Oxford: Signal Books. ISBN 978-1-904955-72-6.
^ "The Alabama". http://www.csa-dixie.com/liverpool_dixie/alabama.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-26.
^ "C3 — Coaching". Carlisle Encyclopaedia. Carlisle History. http://www.carlisleshistory.co.uk/page24.htm. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
^ Garrard, J. R. (2004). "Longley, Charles Thomas (1794–1868)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16987. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
^ Berry, George (1970). Discovering Schools. Tring: Shire Publications. ISBN 0-85263-091-3.

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1862 in the United Kingdom

Contents

Incumbents

Events

Undated

Publications

Births

Deaths

References

See also